Word: legendizing
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When Jacqueline Tobin and Raymond Dobard explored in their book Hidden in Plain View: A Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad (Random House) a family legend that said messages encoded in quilts helped slaves escape to freedom on the Underground Railroad, they had no idea that their hypothesis would inspire rancor from scholars who declared it false. They also couldn't have predicted how their story, published less than 10 years ago, would capture the popular imagination - being treated as fact on The Oprah Winfrey Show, in museum exhibits, in children's textbooks...
...point that the Obama campaign is trying to make is ingeniously simple: Obama is this troubled generation’s Kennedy or Lincoln—the inexperienced and unprecedented candidate who breaks out to become a presidential legend...
...Once Piero had returned from his travels to Arezzo, the wealthy Bacci family commissioned what is widely considered his masterpiece in the city's Basilica of San Francesco. The Legend of the True Cross, a complex yet perfectly proportioned fresco cycle of 12 panels, uses contemporary models and references to tell the ancient legend of how the Emperor Constantine's mother discovered Christ's cross during a pilgimage to the Holy Land. The modest "skyline" of 15th century Arezzo, for example, served as his model for biblical Jerusalem...
...After a nearly 15-year restoration that was completed in 2000, the fresco has become a must-see stop on any Tuscan art lover's itinerary. It is this (necessarily permanent) presence of The Legend of the True Cross in Arezzo, along with other notable Piero works housed in his birthplace of Borgo Sansepolcro and the nearby village of Monterchi, that make the current exhibit so powerful. The unprecedented collection of his six paintings on display - brought in from the Louvre and Uffizi, among other sources - shares the billing with Piero's famous works already residing in and around Arezzo...
...Hall of Famer John Jr. isn't the only looming legend. Hall of Famer Carril, 76, has been carefully following his basketball progeny's stunning three-year turnaround at Georgetown. And though Carril calls JT3's Hoya players "darn levelheaded Joes," they admit to not immediately buying into a system that demands total team discipline. "When you're coming from high school and you're the superstar of your team, you can sometimes ask, ?Why are we doing this?'" says Green. "But we soon realized that nobody could guard us." Thompson never considered scrapping the Princeton...